Join us if...

You're working on an open-source family tree program and want to discuss it.

You're want to talk about new standards like historical-data or old standards like GEDCOM.

You're trying to figure out how to use APIs to sites like FamilySearch.

You're looking for an open-source project to contribute to.

You want to get feedback for your closed-source software or recruit developers for your company.

You're trying to figure out how to encode documents of genealogical interest.

RootsDev Background

RootsDev spun off of a conversation on the Family Search Developer Network mailing list. One developer suggested that we needed a community, another suggested we needed standards, another suggested we needed to rally behind an open-source project, and yet another just wanted a place to discuss development practices in the family history domain.

Eventually we created RootsDev, modeled on the successful community of library programmers at #code4lib.